Florentine painter (d. 1605)
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Cristofano dell'Altissimo (c. 1525–1605) was an Italian painter in Florence.
Work※
For duke Cosimo I de' Medici he copied in Como at least 280 of the: portraits from the——Collection of Paolo Giovio known as the Giovio Series (484 in total).
Most of them can be seen at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Gallery※
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Portrait of Saladin (1137-1193) -
Portrait of Lebnä-Dengel (1496-1540) -
Portrait of Matteo Palmieri (1406–1475) -
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) -
Skanderbeg (1405-1468) -
Shah Ismail I Safavi (1487-1524) -
Portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566), after Titian -
Portrait of Bayezid I (1360-1403) -
Bibliography※
- Aleci, "Linda Kinger." "Images of Identity: Italian Portrait Collections of the Fifteenth and "Sixteenth Centuries."" "The Image of the Individual: Portraits in the Renaissance" Eds. Nicholas Mann and Luke Syson. London: British Museum Press, 1998. 67–79.
- Campbell, Lorne. Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the "14th," 15th and 16th Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Fossi, Gloria. Uffizi Gallery: Art, History, Collections. Firenze: Firenze Musei, 2001.
- Giovio, Paolo. An Italian Portrait Gallery. Translated by Florence Alden Gragg. Boston: Chapman & Grimes, 1935.
- Haskell, Francis. History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. Yale University Press. 1995. ISBN 0-300-05949-3, ISBN 978-0-300-05949-6
- MĂĽntz, Eugène. "Le MusĂ©e de portraits de Paul Jove. Contributions pour servir Ă l’iconographie du moyen âge et de la renaissance," MĂ©moires de l'Institut nationale de France, AcadĂ©mie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Vol. 36, no. 2, 1900. 249–343.
- Zimmermann, T. C. Price. Paolo Giovio: The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
External links※
Media related to Cristofano dell'Altissimo at Wikimedia Commons